Corybantes - (Crested Dancers)

PARENTS

• [1] APOLLON & THALEIA (Apollodorus 1.18)
• [2] ZEUS & KALLIOPE (Strabo 10.3.19)
• [3] APOLLON & RHETIA (Pherecydes Frag, Strabo 10.3.21)

The Korybantes (Ancient Greek: Κορύβαντες) were the crested dancers who worshipped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and dancing. They are also called the Kurbantes in Phrygia, and Corybants in an older English transcription. The Kuretes were the nine dancers who venerate Rhea, the Cretan counterpart of Cybele, Mother of the Gods

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corybantes

THE SAMOTHRAKIAN KORYBANTES (or Corybantes) were seven daimones who presided over the Korybantic dance of the Mysteries of Samothrake. The korybas was an orgiastic dance performed by armoured men with clashing spear and shield, accompanied by the beat of tambourines and drums and the cries of the mystic devotees. The Samothrakian Korybantes were barely distinguished from the Kabeiroi, another set of orgiastic daimones who presided over the Mysteries. Often the two Kabeiroi sons of Hephaistos were combined with the seven Korybant sons of Apollon to form a Mystery-chorus of nine.

http://www.theoi.com/Georgikos/KorybantesSamothrakioi.html